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Mathematical model of rubberless pneumatic artificial muscle

2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2011
This paper describes a mathematical model of a rubberless pneumatic artificial muscle. This artificial muscle has characteristics resembling those of a McKibben-type artificial muscle. Because of its exclusion of rubber material, however, the rubberless artificial muscle can be driven by low pressure.
Takanori Ogasawara, Naoki Saito 0002, Takanori Sato, Toshiyuki Satoh   +3 more
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Comparison of contractile and extensile pneumatic artificial muscles

Smart Materials and Structures, 2016
Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are used in robotic and prosthetic applications due to their high power to weight ratio, controllable compliance, and simple design. Contractile PAMs are typically used in traditional hard robotics in place of heavy electric motors.
Thomas E. Pillsbury, Qinghua Guan, Norman M. Wereley   +2 more
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Enhanced manipulator's safety with artificial pneumatic muscle

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009
The safety of humans working with robots is an important issue. Many studies have addressed related methods, but fundamental limits to meet required safety have been met owing to the absence of compliance in the robot actuators. Pneumatic muscle is considered to be a basic actuator and offers the advantage of intrinsic elasticity to achieve the joint ...
Tae-Yong Choi, Byoung-Suk Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Masanori Sugisaka   +3 more
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Modeling Hysteresis in Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles

2008 IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, 2008
Estimating the force exerted by a pneumatic muscle actuator by measuring its gauge pressure is challenging since hysteresis is almost always present. This paper investigates the hysteresis phenomenon in pleated pneumatic artificial muscles, which is found to be largely independent of gauge pressure.
Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Innes Vanderniepen, Rino Versluys, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber   +7 more
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The use of pneumatic artificial muscles in robot construction

Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 2011
PurposeRecent requirements for drive systems in robotic technology, mainly for their performance, performance and weight ratio, compactness with minimal internal structure and with the integration of main functional parts, lead to intensive application of new, non‐traditional solutions.
Anton Palko, Juraj Smrcek
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Design of flat pneumatic artificial muscles

Smart Materials and Structures, 2017
Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) have gained wide use in the field of robotics due to their ability to generate linear forces and motions with a simple mechanism, while remaining lightweight and compact. However, PAMs are limited by their traditional cylindrical form factors, which must increase radially to improve contraction force generation ...
Jackson Wirekoh, Yong-Lae Park
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Control performance of pneumatic artificial muscle

SPIE Proceedings, 2006
The robot in the future will be lightened and, in addition, the complex tasks will be done by the consumption of less energy. To achieve this, the development of an artificial muscle actuator which is as soft as a human-being becomes indispensable. At present, the artificial muscle actuator used is the McKibben type, but the heat and mechanical loss of
Norihiko Saga, Seiji Chonan
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Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuation and Modeling

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2009
A Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (PAM) yields a natural muscle‐like actuator with a high force to weight ratio, a soft and flexible structure, and adaptable compliance for a humanoid robot, rehabilitation and prosthetic appliances to the disabled, etc. To obtain optimum design and usage, the mechanical behavior of the PAM need to be understood.
Thananchai Leephakpreeda, Kanchana C. Wickramatunge, Sio-Iong Ao, Alan Hoi-Shou Chan, Hideki Katagiri, Li Xu   +5 more
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Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Powered Exoskeleton

Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics 2019, 2019
Recent Developments in engineering and robotics has brought technology into the close proximity of the human body. The exoskeleton is a wearable technology that can assist the wearer with the strenuous and cumbersome operations and relieve stress and fatigue in the wearer. In this paper, we discuss the full body hybrid exoskeleton that is a combination
Prabhakar Naik, Jayant Unde, Bhushan Darekar, S. S. Ohol   +3 more
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Safe robot with artificial pneumatic muscle

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, 2009
The safety of humans working with robots is an important issue. Many studies have addressed related methods, but fundamental limits to meet required safety have been met owing to the absence of compliance in the robot actuators. Pneumatic muscle is considered to be a basic actuator and offers the advantage of intrinsic elasticity to achieve the joint ...
null Tae-Yong Choi, null Joon-Hong Seok, null Ju-Jang Lee   +2 more
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